The Life of the Umbilical Cord Stump

Holy Cow!  Kylee is 7 weeks, 2 days old and her lovely umbilical cord stump just fell off!!!  As parents of two, we didn't think that something as little as the umbilical cord stump would be a different experience than Zoe's.  We know that every little one is different, but this?  Really?  Zoe lost her umbilical cord stump within 2 weeks of her birthday, so we anticipated the same with Kylee.  Kylee wanted to be different than all others and hang onto hers for quite a long time!  (Hopefully this is not a sign of future attachment issues :) )  To me, it is a pretty gnarly thing...not to mention when is stays on for 7+ weeks!  At 3 and a half weeks, I took her into the doctor because it had changed and I thought that it was infected.  The doctor said it was fine and it looked good.  He said it would probably fall off by the end of that week.  NOT!!!  Try 4 weeks later!  Well...what really bugs me about the whole thing is that we have not given Kylee a full bath yet.  Poor thing!  I am a fan of schedules for the kiddos and this has killed me!  We FINALLY can bathe her at the same time (or a little earlier) as her sister and put them down around the same time.  My goal is to have that routine in place prior to going on vacation.  We'll see!